Kelly's Directory 1907
Transcribed by Allan Gillard
Nether Compton is a parish on the Somersetshire border, 3 miles north-east from Yeovil Junction station on the main line of the London and South Western railway, 3 north-west-by-west from Sherborne, and 3 east from Yeovil, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division and union of Sherborne, county court district of Yeovil, rural deanery of Shaftesbury (Sherborne portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury.
The church of St. Nicholas is a small building in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north transept, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 bells: the chancel is separated from the body of the church by a small but elegant stone screen of the 15th century work: there are 235 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1538.
The living is a rectory, with the rectory of Over Compton annexed, joint net yearly value £321, including 70 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Col. J. R. P. Goodden, and held since 1884 by the Rev. Edward Wyndham Goodden, of Merton College, Oxford, hon. canon of Salisbury.
Here is a Congregational chapel, founded in 1662, seating 250.
A charity of £6 yearly is available for the second poor of the parish.
Col. John Robert Phelips Goodden, of Over Compton, is lord of the manor and the principal land owner.
The soil is light loam; subsoil, clay.
The land is chiefly pasture.
The area is 906 acres; rateable value, £1,392; the population in 1901 was 263.
Stalen adjoins Nether Compton on the east; Court Ash is half a mile south-east; Chorlock Hill, one mile north-east.
Parish Clerk, John Hart.
Post, M. O. & T. O., S. B. & A. & I. Office. – Mrs. Fanny R. Collings, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive by messenger from Sherborne at 7.20 a.m. & 2.10 p.m.; dispatched at 11.45 a.m. & 5.45 p.m.; sundays, 1.25 p.m
Wall Letter Box, Stirling farm, cleared at 11.50 a.m. & 6 p.m.; sundays, 1.45 p.m.
County Police Station, Thomas Ford, constable
Elementary School (mixed), built 1848, with residence for master, for 125 children; average attendance, 68; George Fooks, master [Retired in 1927]
Farquharson Mrs. The Cottage
Goodden Rev. Canon Edward Wyndham (rector), Rectory
COMMERCIAL
Arnold Robert, boot & shoe maker & assistant overseer
Collings Fanny R. (Mrs.) Post Office
Collings John & Arthur, builders, wheelwrights & smiths
James Edwin, farmer
Kendal George, farm bailiff to Col. Goodden D.L., J.P.
Masters George, farmer, Bucklers
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Mrs. E. Goodden, hon. sec.)
Sawtell Henry Wippel, farmer
Vaux Susan (Mrs.), Griffin’s Head P.H.
Willis Hy. Jn. Stirling farm
Over Compton is a parish, on the borders of Somersetshire, 3 miles west-north-west from Sherborne station on the main line of the London and South Western railway, and 3 east-by-north from Yeovil stations on the Great Western and London and South Western railways, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division and union of Sherborne, county court district of Yeovil, rural deanery of Shaftesbury (Sherborne portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Michael is a small building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel with chapel, nave, south porch, and an embattled western tower, containing a clock and 4 bells: the tower is 63 feet high, and is built of Ham Hill stone: there are 140 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1626.
The living is a rectory, annexed to that of Nether Compton, in the gift of Col. John R. P. Goodden, and held since 1884 by the Rev. Edward Wyndham Goodden, of Merton College, Oxford, and hon. canon of Salisbury, who resides at Nether Compton. Compton House is the seat of Col. John Robert Phelips Goodden D.L., J.P. lord of the manor and principal landowner.
The soil is light loam; subsoil, clay.
The chief crops are corn and some land in pasture.
The area is 681 acres; rateable value, £1,530; the population in 1901 was 115.
Babylon Hill is one mile south-west.
Parish Clerk, John Hart.
Wall Letter Box, Higher farm, cleared at 5 p.m. week days only
Letters arrive from Sherborne at 7.30 a.m. & 2.30 p.m.
The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Nether Compton
The children of this place attend the school at Nether Compton
Goodden Col. John Robert Phelips D.L., J.P. Compton house
Corry William, farmer
Dodd Robert, miller (water)
Farr William, private gardener to Col. J.R.P. Goodden D.L., J.P
Griffin Elizabeth (Miss), shopkeeper
Squibb Thomas, farmer
Stacey Henry, farmer
Wareham Walter, gamekeeper to Col. J.R.P. Goodden D.L., J.P.